Ian Kelling wrote:
> Ok, seems like we should setup a development instance of Savane, at
> least the relevant parts. Does that sound right?
Yes. A while back rms and I were chatting about things and he had
suggested that we set up something pre-seeded with whatever is
needed. Because setting up a local sandbox is definitely not
trivial. Here are Assaf's instructions.
https://savannah.gnu.org/maintenance/RunningSavaneLocally/
The biggest problem is that the site requires the database to be
pre-seeded with a bunch of stuff that is not completely known what is
needed. If you start with an empty database then the site is
basically not functional. Therefore rms had put in a request that we
set up a development site.
Previously we had been using frontend-dev as a partial way along that
way. But that system interacts with the live production database.
And that is where the problems and danger lies.
I couldn't bring myself to ask for yet another VM until some of the
previous work on the existing VMs were completed. But in the long run
we would need a new development system. The old frontend-dev is at
the end of its life. Just need to confirm with Ineiev. Then we could
drop it and create a new one for that purpose.
For the record I don't like the RunningSavaneLocally path completely
because that uses a sanitized version of the production database. I
think that cleaning personal account information is always too risky.
Instead I think we need to create a new database from scratch without
using any personal account information. Using fake data. There is a
long trend to use faked data for web site development. Setting that
up would be a great project to help out Savannah development.
Bob
